Author (Penulis)

HABIB WIRAWAN
Universitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri

Author Identity (NPM)

11.1.01.08.0085

Abstract

In education world, writing is very important for students. If the students are able to write, it will help them to understand the lesson or material well. This benefits derives to a conclusion that writing skill is very important to all level students. Even though writing skill is important to be mastered, many teachers often feel difficulty in teaching writing to the students especially vocational school students who have lack ability in writing. One of the effective solutions to help the students in learn how to write procedure text is using media picture series. Considering the problems faced by the students, the researcher formulated the two problems in this research as follow: 1) Is there any significanteffect of using picture series to the tenth grade students’ writing ability; 2) How is the students’ response of the tenth grade students of SMK PGRI 3 Kediri in academic year of 2015/2016 after taught using Picture Series technique? The variables used in this research were writing ability as dependent variable and picture series as independent variable. Then, the approach applied in this researchwas quantitative approach, and the technique used was one group pre test and post test design. This research was held in SMK PGRI 3 Kediri. The data were obtained from the tenth year students, of which 24 students were taken as sample. To get the data, the pre-test and post-test were apllied and then analyzed using t-test formula. From the data analysis, the researcher had concluded that picture series is effective to be used to teach writing. The calculation result in hypothesis testing showed that mean of students’ post-test result was increased from students’ pre-test. It is proved by the result of this research that t-score (5,948) which is higher than t-table (2,069) at level of significance 5%. It means that the alternative hypothesis was accepted and it proved that picture series had significant effect to the students’ writing ability. In conclusion, the researcher concludes the conclusion of this research that Picture Series is really appropriate in teaching writing to build and develop new idea and also write easily. Based on the conclusion above, the writer suggests that: The teacher must use an interesting technique in teaching writing such as Picture Series technique to change their assumption that writing is not a bored subject.

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PUBLISHED

2016-08-16

JOURNAL

Simki-Pedagogia

ISSN

2599-073X

ISSUE

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